Comments on: Twitter Destroyed This Blog http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2013/01/14/twitter-destroyed-this-blog/ infrequent blogging from some dude Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2013/01/14/twitter-destroyed-this-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-26000 CajoleJuice Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:32:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3409#comment-26000 "If you feel that you're able to convey all that you want in tweets, then sustaining a blog is superfluous at that point, no?" Hence the title of this blog post. I feel you on the rest of it. Or maybe just posting reviews on Criticker/Letterbox? “If you feel that you’re able to convey all that you want in tweets, then sustaining a blog is superfluous at that point, no?”

Hence the title of this blog post. I feel you on the rest of it. Or maybe just posting reviews on Criticker/Letterbox?

]]> By: Tyler http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2013/01/14/twitter-destroyed-this-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-25999 Tyler Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:52:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3409#comment-25999 If you feel that you're able to convey all that you want in tweets, then sustaining a blog is superfluous at that point, no? I have a WP that I never use but should and do feel that there is merit in more long form posting. However, I love Twitter and understand those that feel they can have a presence with it alone. I just don't personally want to relegate myself solely to it. I'm not really a "features" kind of guy. I care little about new trailers (unless it's totally out of left field from a director I really enjoy or something of the like) and am not a starfucker type so don't focus on that dynamic like some sites do. I enjoy criticism and want to engage in it, myself, and feel that blog posting is the best avenue for that. If you feel that you’re able to convey all that you want in tweets, then sustaining a blog is superfluous at that point, no? I have a WP that I never use but should and do feel that there is merit in more long form posting. However, I love Twitter and understand those that feel they can have a presence with it alone. I just don’t personally want to relegate myself solely to it. I’m not really a “features” kind of guy. I care little about new trailers (unless it’s totally out of left field from a director I really enjoy or something of the like) and am not a starfucker type so don’t focus on that dynamic like some sites do. I enjoy criticism and want to engage in it, myself, and feel that blog posting is the best avenue for that.

]]> By: CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2013/01/14/twitter-destroyed-this-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-25998 CajoleJuice Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:43:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3409#comment-25998 Absolutely. I think it has just forced me to be more thoughtful when writing, and at least try to add something of real value to the internet discourse. I probably should have focused on the fact that many older posts on my blog were of the two paragraph variety, just commenting on how I feel about an upcoming movie after embedding the trailer or something along those lines. Those posts are now totally pointless. Sure, movie websites have posts like that to keep their post count up, but screw that. I can get those feelings across in a tweet or two nowadays. Absolutely. I think it has just forced me to be more thoughtful when writing, and at least try to add something of real value to the internet discourse. I probably should have focused on the fact that many older posts on my blog were of the two paragraph variety, just commenting on how I feel about an upcoming movie after embedding the trailer or something along those lines. Those posts are now totally pointless. Sure, movie websites have posts like that to keep their post count up, but screw that. I can get those feelings across in a tweet or two nowadays.

]]> By: Tyler http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2013/01/14/twitter-destroyed-this-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-25997 Tyler Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:39:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3409#comment-25997 I feel that Twitter serves as a more macro look at things (a blurb, perhaps...or 140 characters as it were), whereas blog posts are more of a micro look, allowing one to expound more on what they want to say and not restricted to the confines of Twitter. With film criticism, for example, you have critics that will give slight thoughts on a film they've watched and then have a more long form review on their site of choice. I like that dynamic. I already find writing to be a difficult and exhausting process, and Twitter further complicates that. But that dichotomy between the blog and Twitter still remains, I think. I feel that Twitter serves as a more macro look at things (a blurb, perhaps…or 140 characters as it were), whereas blog posts are more of a micro look, allowing one to expound more on what they want to say and not restricted to the confines of Twitter. With film criticism, for example, you have critics that will give slight thoughts on a film they’ve watched and then have a more long form review on their site of choice. I like that dynamic. I already find writing to be a difficult and exhausting process, and Twitter further complicates that. But that dichotomy between the blog and Twitter still remains, I think.

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